simpleynews 0.2.0

A simple Yahoo Finance news scraper

SimpleYNews

SimpleYNews is a Python package that offers a simple way to scrape financial news from Yahoo! Finance for given stock tickers.

*** IMPORTANT LEGAL DISCLAIMER *** Yahoo!, Y!Finance, and Yahoo! finance are registered trademarks of Yahoo, Inc. SimpleYNews is not affiliated, endorsed, or vetted by Yahoo, Inc. It's an open-source tool that uses Yahoo's publicly available APIs, and is intended for research and educational purposes. You should refer to Yahoo!'s terms of use (here, here, and here) for details on your rights to use the actual data downloaded. Remember - the Yahoo! finance API is intended for personal use only.

Installation

Install SimpleYNews using pip:

pip install simpleynews

Quick Start

from simpleynews import SimpleYNews

# Get news for a single ticker
aapl = SimpleYNews.Ticker("AAPL")
apple_news = aapl.news

# Print the results
print("News for AAPL:")
for item in apple_news:
    print(f"Title: {item['title']}")
    print(f"Link: {item['link']}")
    print(f"Publisher: {item['publisher']}")
    print(f"Publish Time: {item['providerPublishTime']}")
    print("---")

# Get news for multiple tickers
tickers = ["GOOGL", "MSFT"]
for ticker in tickers:
    news = SimpleYNews.Ticker(ticker).news
    print(f"\nNews for {ticker}:")
    for item in news:
        print(f"Title: {item['title']}")
        print(f"Link: {item['link']}")
        print(f"Publisher: {item['publisher']}")
        print(f"Publish Time: {item['providerPublishTime']}")
        print("---")

Features

• Scrape latest news for given stock tickers from Yahoo! Finance
• Simple and intuitive API similar to yfinance
• Caching of news data to reduce repeated requests
• Logging for better debugging and monitoring

Contributing

Contributions are welcome! Please feel free to submit a Pull Request.

License

SimpleYNews is distributed under the Apache License 2.0. See the LICENSE file for details.

Disclaimer

SimpleYNews is not affiliated, endorsed, or vetted by Yahoo, Inc. It's an open-source tool that uses Yahoo's publicly available APIs, and is intended for research and educational purposes only. You should refer to Yahoo!'s terms of use for details on your rights to use the actual data downloaded.